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Python Introducing Lists Using Lists Continental

Posted by Kyle Harris
Kyle Harris
2,149 Points

Cycling through a list starting with 'A'

Going back through the videos i did not see the code that allows us to pull out words that start with a specific letter. I tried several different things from research I did online and can't find the correct code that the program is asking for.

continents.py 
continents = [
    'Asia',
    'South America',
    'North America',
    'Africa',
    'Europe',
    'Antarctica',
    'Australia',
]
# Your code here
for continent in continents:
    print("*", continent)
for a in continents:
    if a.startswith('A'):
        print(a)

1 Answer

Clayton Perszyk
MOD
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 48,723 Points
Clayton Perszyk
Clayton Perszyk
Treehouse Moderator 48,723 Points

you don't need the second for loop. In the first for loop check if continent starts with an 'a'; if it does print it, otherwise do nothing.

You should only be outputting one list of continents in the second step of challenge.